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> Programming was a matter of finding the right libraries, and doing plumbing, back then, as it is now. It seems by "programming" you mean setting up a website
by IlliOnato 5y ago
> Programming was a matter of finding the right libraries, and doing plumbing, back then, as it is now.
It seems by "programming" you mean setting up a website or a webapp. You know, maybe this is what most of the programmers do, but the whole programming area is much, much more vast.
Very little of what I have been doing in 25 years of software development, or what my colleagues are doing, could be described this way.
Yes, there is some plumbing in networking, GUI, or say UTF-8 handling. But I would guess 95% of our code is original and complex logic.
- mikewarot 5y agoSorry, but this triggered me getting defensive... here's the rant. By programming, I mean starting from a sketch on a piece of paper at lunch at Wendy's outlining an idea, and implementing it on both a handheld computer programmed in PL/N, connecting to it via a weird custom serial card/cable, then in Turbo Pascal on an IBM compatible PC, implementing a database, text editing routines, multitasking, and all end user support... in the days of MS-DOS through Windows 3.1 Building my own multi-tasking definitely wasn't plumbing, but after I had the libraries built I needed, it was all plumbing. The nice thing is in Turbo Pascal, everything had help that was complete, with a working example piece of code. GIT still is way better than backups to zip file on floppies.